Public-amusement device.



G. G. RODEGKr PUBLIC AMUSEMENT DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT.7,1912.

1,081,554, Patented Dec. 16,1913.

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GEORG CARL RODEGK, OF PANSDORF, NEAR IfljBECK, GERMANY.

PUBLIC-AMUSEMENT DEVICE.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, Gnone CARL RoDEoK, a subject of the German Emperor, residing at Pansdorf, near Liibeck, in Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Public-Amusement Devices, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a novel form of apparatus for public amusement comprising essentially one or more balloon like envelops of spherical or semispherical shape which are arranged on a stationary or movable plat-form, and are adapted to be inflated by compressed air. In using the apparatus persons having taken their places on the previously deflated and collapsed envelop are raised during its inflation and subsequently forced off during the latter stages of such inflation.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which Figure l is a vertical section of the apparatus; Fig. 2 a plan view thereof, and Fig. 3 a section of a modified form of part of the apparatus.

The apparatus comprises a circular platform 70 which is rigidly connected to a central shaft 0 revolubly mounted in a frame. The platform 70 is rotated by an electric motor 2' through the medium of gearing such as the shaft m, bevel wheels 6 and cl, and aforesaid shaft 0. The revolving platform 70 is shown as provided with rollers 0 running on guide rails mounted on pedestals to. On the platform 70 is placed the envelop a. The motor '5 also drives a fan 7L which compresses air in the compression chamber g, a pipe 5 connecting the fan and compressor. The compressed air leaving the chamber 9 is conducted by a pipe f to the interior of the envelop a. The admittance of compressed air to the envelop from chamber g may be regulated by means of reducing valves (not shown). The compression chamber may also be omitted, if desired, the air from the fan It being introduced directly into the envelop through the pipe f, this arrangement being preferable when a rotary blower is employed to inflate the envelop.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed September 7, 1912.

Patented Dec. 16,1913.

Serial No. 719,169.

The shaft 0 is hollow and the air pipe f passes through its bore.

It will be understood that the rotary platform 71: carrying the envelop may be driven by means other than those shown and described, for example independently of the fan.

The envelop a may be rapidly deflated by providing the same with an escape valve (not shown) or the deflation may be effected by suction, in which case the motor 2', the compression chamber 9, fan It and the pipes s and f would be used in the opposite sense to that for inflation.

The drawing shows persons w sliding off the inflated envelop onto a ring I) carried by the platform It, which ring may be padded as shown or provided with a catch net.

I may provide a plurality of envelops of any suitable shape and of any construction. Fig 3 shows an annular envelop a which provides a central opening r into which persons may fall from the inflated envelop, a padded floor a serving to prevent injury.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is 1. A. public amusement apparatus comprising a rotatable base, an inflatable envelop disposed on said base, means for rotating said base, and means for inflating the envelop whereby persons resting on the envelop when in deflated condition are raised during such inflation and at a subsequent stage thereof are forced oft the envelop on to said base.

2. A public amusement apparatus comprising a base in the form of a circular plate rotatable about a vertical axis, means for rotating said base, an inflatable envelop disposed on said base, and means for inflating the envelop whereby persons resting on the envelop when in deflated condition are raised during such inflation and at a subsequent stage thereof are forced off the envelop on to said base.

8. A public amusement apparatus comprising a rotatable base, an inflatable envelop disposed on said base, a motor and Q 1,os1,55e

In Witness whereof I have signed this speclficatlon 1n the presence of two wltnesses,

GEORG CARL RODECK.

connections for rotating said base, and means operated by said motor for simultaneously inflating the envelop whereby persons resting on the envelop When in deflated condition are raised during such inflation and at a subsequent stage thereof are forced off the envelop on to said base.

l/Vitnesses:

RUDOLPH FRIOKE, JOHANNA RoDEcK.

Gopies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

